Indonesian Hardwood Trees

In fact it grows faster than other any type of hardwood.

Indonesian hardwood trees.

Diend cultural festival is mainly celebrated in the dieng plateau of java and there is a reason for that. This wood has been used as a building material to make stage house rumah panggung for indonesian local people to make jewelry or even sculptures. The color is a combination of black and brown color with a contrast vein or grain on the wood itself. Suar or saman samanea is actually a south american native.

The hardwood is also called as rain tree and monkey pod. Heartwood can also have a greenish hue. Originates from evergreen forest at 400 1 200 m altitude. Hardwood is wood from dicot trees these are usually found in broad leaved temperate and tropical forests.

But it has been spread quickly in the tropical countries. Outer bark brown or yellowish white smooth. Ulin can be categorized as a giant tree species with height up to 30 meters and has 60 120 cm trunk diameters. Ulin eusiderxylon zwageri ulin or belian as its famous nickname is a common trees in indonesia that grows in kalimantan island.

From all of hardwood species that available nowadays there are five types of wood that are often or commonly used by the carpenters or companies in indonesia as main material to make a wide range of furniture products such as tables chairs cabinets doors and many more. A teak tree can grow up to 40 meters high with a diameter of up to 1 5 meter. Latex used as glue and cement. Heartwood ranges from a medium brown to nearly black.

Commonly with black veining and contrasting brown or reddish streaks. Another popular indonesian celebrations occur here in the month of august. Renowned for a number of medical properties. For the functions ulin wood is beneficial in construction field.

Citation needed in temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen hardwood which come from angiosperm trees contrasts with softwood which are from gymnosperm trees. Indonesian mahogany suren toona sureni sapele entandrophragma cylindricum sipo utile entandrophragma utile tiama entandrophragma angolense kosipo entandrophragma candollei mountain mahogany bottle tree entandrophragma caudatumi indian mahogany chickrassy chittagong wood chukrasia velutina. Older trees with buttresses up to 6 m high and reaching 2 m out from a bole. Unfortunately these big diameters are rarely found since the trees are cut down long before that to make the furniture.

Sharply demarcated sapwood is a pale yellow to tan color and is typically present on most pieces. It s a delight to watch large boats made out of hardwood trees raced over the water on this special day.